Direction - Social Democracy

Direction - Social Democracy (Smer-SD) is a social democratic political party in Slovakia that was founded in 1999. The party split from the Slovakian Party of the Democratic Left, and it absorbed its mother party in 2005 to become the most powerful social democratic party in the country. The party supported left-wing nationalism, and Smer-SD Prime Minister Robert Fico opposed the European Union's mandatory migrant quotas and swore to not let a single Muslim migrant onto Slovakian territory.